<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian, 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot of Mamsbury, Bishop of Sherborne, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian, 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot of Mamsbury, Bishop of Sherborne, 709   In the way of virtue, there is no standing still; anyone who does not daily advance, loses ground. To remain at a standstill is impossible; he that gains not, loses; he that ascends not, descends. If one does not ascend the ladder, one must descend; if one does not conquer, one will be conquered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows public opinion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11590]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows public opinion]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's the end of his life, by the look of it, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29901]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's the end of his life, by the look of it,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59537]]></link><description><![CDATA[We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words represent your intellect. The sound, gesture and movement represent your feelings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words represent your intellect. The sound, gesture and movement represent your feelings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's great to just play with Rod. He's an inspiration to everyone out here, especially guys like me who've struggled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31416]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's great to just play with Rod. He's an inspiration to everyone out here, especially guys like me who've struggled to stay in the league.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The simplest things are often the truest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56333]]></link><description><![CDATA[The simplest things are often the truest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no question Blagojevich is vulnerable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33403]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no question Blagojevich is vulnerable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63367]]></link><description><![CDATA[If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57148]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a lot of sympathy and we give him the maximum moral and technical support. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32603]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a lot of sympathy and we give him the maximum moral and technical support.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity. Modern civilization is so complex ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7090]]></link><description><![CDATA[We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity. Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. The need for solitude and quietness was never greater than it is today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no way to actively portray where security problems are coming from because all attacks look the same, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34181]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no way to actively portray where security problems are coming from because all attacks look the same, and that forces you to assume the worst every time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Security is not the absence of danger, but the presence of God, no matter what the danger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Security is not the absence of danger, but the presence of God, no matter what the danger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dispel this cloud, the light of heaven restore; Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dispel this cloud, the light of heaven restore; Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every honest miller has a golden thumb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every honest miller has a golden thumb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest. [Ger., Die Menschen gehen wie Schiesskugeln weiter, wenn sie abgeglattet sind.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest. [Ger., Die Menschen gehen wie Schiesskugeln weiter, wenn sie abgeglattet sind.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633 Love is that liquor sweet and most divine Which my God feels as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633 Love is that liquor sweet and most divine Which my God feels as blood; but I, as wine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53513]]></link><description><![CDATA[The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I definitely feel a bond with Jordan. Him being from L.A., I got plenty of opportunities to see him play. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29630]]></link><description><![CDATA[I definitely feel a bond with Jordan. Him being from L.A., I got plenty of opportunities to see him play. I definitely knew I'd be coming into a school with another talented guard, and you have to enjoy that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Boys and the FrogsSome boys, playing near a pond, saw a number of Frogs in the water and began ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1556]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Boys and the FrogsSome boys, playing near a pond, saw a number of Frogs in the water and began to pelt them with stones. They killed several of them, when one of the Frogs, lifting his head out of the water, cried out: Pray stop, my boys: what is sport to you, is death to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is not magnetic personality-that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is not magnetic personality-that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing people"-that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. -Peter F. Drucker.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I couldn't be more proud of our guys. We started off 2-5 and won 9 of our last 10. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29491]]></link><description><![CDATA[I couldn't be more proud of our guys. We started off 2-5 and won 9 of our last 10. We were a pretty handful until we got in point guard trouble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66415]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here comes one with a paper: God give him grace to groan! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here comes one with a paper: God give him grace to groan!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jay is a guy who is always going to put the ball in play. He's a decent hitter, a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jay is a guy who is always going to put the ball in play. He's a decent hitter, a good hitter. Fortunately, with the bases loaded, he was able to hit a home run for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very happy for him. . . . He was heartbroken here once, ... But that's all over now. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29673]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very happy for him. . . . He was heartbroken here once, ... But that's all over now. I told him he had to face these things in life . . . to make a man of himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't take life seriously because you can't come out of it alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't take life seriously because you can't come out of it alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the FedEx guy showed up with the medal, I was so excited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35435]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the FedEx guy showed up with the medal, I was so excited.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There 's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple: If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56093]]></link><description><![CDATA[There 's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple: If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good things will strive to dwell with 't. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On an ongoing basis, manufacturers are raising prices because they can. It enhances profitability, largely because there are few incremental ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32928]]></link><description><![CDATA[On an ongoing basis, manufacturers are raising prices because they can. It enhances profitability, largely because there are few incremental costs, and consumers' response to a higher price is relatively modest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66265]]></link><description><![CDATA[One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53348]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arm thyself for the truth! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Arm thyself for the truth!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make a customer, not a sale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make a customer, not a sale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure admitted in undue degree Enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure admitted in undue degree Enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lo! darkness bends down like a mother of grief On the limitless plain, and the fall of her hair  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lo! darkness bends down like a mother of grief On the limitless plain, and the fall of her hair  It has mantled a world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46537]]></link><description><![CDATA[My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lion in LoveA lion demanded the daughter of a woodcutter in marriage. The Father, unwilling to grant, and yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1551]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lion in LoveA lion demanded the daughter of a woodcutter in marriage. The Father, unwilling to grant, and yet afraid to refuse his request, hit upon this expedient to rid himself of his importunities. He expressed his willingness to accept the Lion as the suitor of his daughter on one condition: that he should allow him to extract his teeth, and cut off his claws, as his daughter was fearfully afraid of both. The Lion cheerfully assented to the proposal. But when the toothless, clawless Lion returned to repeat his request, the Woodman, no longer afraid, set upon him with his club, and drove him away into the forest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50881]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome!  With eager thirst, by folly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25457]]></link><description><![CDATA[London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome!  With eager thirst, by folly or by fate,   Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got in early, but that's not a factor. We just worried about today's game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35254]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got in early, but that's not a factor. We just worried about today's game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For no one cares for matrimonial cooings, There's nothing wrong in a connubial kiss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48735]]></link><description><![CDATA[For no one cares for matrimonial cooings, There's nothing wrong in a connubial kiss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the Christian, love is the works of love. To say that love is a feeling or anything of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8178]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the Christian, love is the works of love. To say that love is a feeling or anything of the kind is really an un-Christian conception of love. That is the aesthetic definition and therefore fits the erotic and everything of that nature. But to the Christian, love is the works of love. Christ's love was not an inner feeling, a full heart and what-not: it was the work of love which was his life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some say there is no God...that we are squatting tenantsin the hostile house ofan absent slumlord. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some say there is no God...that we are squatting tenantsin the hostile house ofan absent slumlord.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11231]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While UGA and Georgia State want to do this, Georgia Tech does not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33084]]></link><description><![CDATA[While UGA and Georgia State want to do this, Georgia Tech does not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts. [Lat., Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51846]]></link><description><![CDATA[I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts. [Lat., Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51846</guid></item></channel></rss>